Re: dbaccess setup between different platforms

> From: David Hexem <dhexem@co.riverside.ca.us> > Subject: dbaccess setup between different platforms > Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 11:17:19 -0800 > Reply-to: 4080@rmy.emory.edu, Lemon@rmy.emory.edu, Street@rmy.emory.edu, > 7th@rmy.emory.edu, Floor@rmy.emory.edu;, Riverside@rmy.emory.edu, > CA@rmy.emory.edu, 92502@rmy.emory.edu > Organization: County of Riverside - TLMA > To: informix-list@rmy.emory.edu > HELP!! > > Background: I am currently running INFORMIX on two platforms > (1) HP/9000 T500; HP/UX 10.01, INFORMIX 7.12 hostname A onlineA serviceA > (2) HP/9000 E45; HP/UX 10.10, INFORMIX 7.13 (7.12 not ported to this > platform) hostnameB onlineB serviceB > > Problem: > I want to run dbaccess on one platform into the databases on the other > platform. I have been messing around with the sqlhosts, services for > setting up ports, etc. with no luck. I must be missing something. /etc/hosts IP hostnameA IP hostnameB /etc/services serviceA numA/tcp serviceB numB/tcp $INFORMIXDIR/etc/sqlhosts onlineA ol...tcp hostnameA serviceA onlineB ol...tcp hostnameB serviceB do not forget !!! add hostnameA to hosts.equiv /etc/hosts.equiv --- hostnameB hostnameA and vice versa at hostnameA /etc/hosts.equiv hostnameB or better add hostnameA or hostnameB to $HOME/.rhosts for informix user and to every user using onlineA within connection to onlineB if onlineA and onlineB are at the same computer you have to add its hostname to .rhosts We have several instances of On line at several computers some of them are at the same computer we had a few problems with connection to On line WGS because of default service turbo 1526/tcp we had to create dbserveraliases with unique service to be able to make connection from one online to several workgroups another problem with WGS - i do not know how to make user trusted on NT computer as a result i can not do connect to Unix_online database database@NT_online give me more information about your problems katarina > > Has anyone else attempted a cross-platform dbaccess and can respond with > what steps I need to go through to make this work. > > Your help would be greatly appreciated. My newsgroup access is > currently sketchy so if you could e-mail the respone I would appreciate > it. > > > > David Hexem, Programmer/Analyst IV > Transportation and Land Management Agency > County of Riverside, California > e-mail: dhexem@co.riverside.ca.us > Fax: (909) 275-6879 > > -- Katarina Hamzova Voice : +42 7 5384324 SWH s.r.o Bratislava Slovakia Internet : Katarina.Hamzova@swh.sk